Elementary School Text Features Resources : Page 5

A rebus story is like a picture story! It's up to your little storyteller to fill in the blanks with the cut-out pictures on page 1.

Kids who are just starting to read longer texts may need some extra practice making mental pictures of text they read. Use this fun, short passage to help them practice visualizing and illustrating a scene.

Our silkworm facts help your little one understand more about these special invertebrates. He'll read about their life stages and answer some questions.

Is your kid over the moon for stories? Let him use his imagination to make a storyboard of a familiar nursery rhyme.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Searching for Text Features.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple non-fiction text features with this table of contents activity. Young readers will practice using a table of contents to find information and answer questions about chameleons.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Text Features Evaluation.

When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Learn about these surprisingly diverse biomes, then test your biome and geography know-how with a desert-mapping activity.

Give your young readers some practice using context clues and dictionaries to expand their vocabulary with this reading activity. As students read, they will consider the meaning of tricky words, then write down their definitions using a dictionary.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Parts of a Book.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Use this handy worksheet to help your kindergarten students make connections between the illustrations in a fiction text to the story.

Everyone gets to be a movie maker! Use this resource with your students as they practice visualizing. As they make a movie in their mind, they will create illustrations to accompany a text.

Want to meet a real-life Mulan? Read up on Deborah Sampson, a barrier-breaking woman who fought for equality in the armed forces.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Explaining Illustrations with Declarative Sentences.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Using Sentence Level Context to Decode Text.

This worksheet teaches first graders how to write headings for informational texts.

Students can use this open ended worksheet to practice making predictions using complete sentences.

Review or assess your second graders' understanding of simple nonfiction text features with this delicious index activity. Young readers will practice using an cookbook index to locate information about tasty desserts.

This reading and writing worksheet teaches your young film buff about cool Coraline stop motion effects.

Arrr you ready for a treasure hunt story? These pirates have gotten their story all jumbled! Help them put it back in order.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understand Text Features.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Introduction to Charts and Diagrams.

Both of these animals have big ears! Your child will look at the pictures of unusual animals in this worksheet and try to learn some new things about them.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Revolutionary War Vocabulary.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Inferring with Visual Elements.

Do your students have difficulty making mental pictures or writing summaries? Help them practice both skills with this reading comprehension worksheet in which students choose a scene from their book to illustrate and summarize.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.